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So BE CAUTIOUS. -- Question success and rejection rates:
Success rates show the number of clients who made more money from their invention than they paid to the firm. Rejection rates reflect the percentage of all ideas or inventions that were found unacceptable by the promotion company.
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KEEP BOTH HANDS ON YOUR WALLET/PURSE UNTIL YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU ARE REALLY GETTING FOR YOUR HARD EARNED MONEY! -- How to Protect Yourself: Invention Promotion Firms
Source: Florida Attorney General's Office-- If you have developed a new idea for a product and wish to get it manufactured and marketed, legitimate invention promotion firms may be able to assist you in finding a suitable manufacturing company. Some invention promotion firms, however, do little more than promote their own interests by taking your money and giving you nothing in return. So BE CAUTIOUS. -- Question success and rejection rates: --
Question the firm about its success and rejection rates. Success rates show the number of clients who made more money from their invention than they paid to the firm. Rejection rates reflect the percentage of all ideas or inventions that were found unacceptable by the promotion company. Be wary of a firm that refuses to disclose this information.-- Require documentation of claims.
Be wary of firms that claim to have special access to independent manufacturers looking for new products, but refuse to document such claims. -- Beware of large up-front fees or charges. -- Ask, at the outset, what the total cost of these services will be. Beware of firms that require you to pay a large up-front fee. -- Investigate the company. Before making any commitments investigate the invention promotion company. Call your local Better Business Bureau, consumer protection agency, and Attorney General to find out if there are any consumer complaints about the firm.
-- Find out the qualifications and methodology of company evaluators. -- Be cautious of an invention promotion firm that offers to review or evaluate your invention but refuses to disclose details about its criteria, system of review, or the qualifications of company evaluators. --
Require the firm to check on existing invention patents. -- Beware of high pressure sales tactics. -- Closely examine the contract. Make sure that your contract contains all agreed-upon terms, written and verbal, before you sign it. If possible, have the agreement reviewed by an attorney. --
Be skeptical of claims.
No reputable firm would guarantee your invention's success. -- When one negative number repeats itself to another negative number: "Are you sure - ?" -- "I'm quite positive + !" -- "How retailers get in your head when you shop - Behavior - MSNBC.com" --
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-- Please remember that all patent application files are published and made available to the public 18 months from the filing date, unless a non-publication request is made in the application.
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-- FTC Organization Chart --
... Offices You Should Know About ...
-- Protect Yourself Against Identity Theft! --
-- When filing documentation in support of applications or petitions, please take steps to protect all personal information. "Personal information" includes social security, credit card and banking account numbers. This type of personal data is never required by the USPTO to support a petition or application. To protect your privacy, we suggest that you delete such information from any documentation you send the office. Alternatively, you may request that the submissions be kept out of the public file, if appropriate. (See MPEP Sections 724. 02 to 724.06 www.uspto.gov/web/offices/pac/mpep/documents/0700.htm)
-- Please remember that all patent application files are published and made available to the public 18 months from the filing date, unless a non-publication request is made in the application.
-- Additionally, all patented application files will become available to the public upon the grant of the patent. If you have questions about what information may be published and how to remove the material from documents you plan to submit to the USPTO, please call the Inventors Assistance Center at 1-800-786-9199 or 571-272-1000 TTY: 571-272-9950.
-- Submitted by -- Ran Raider, Patent and Trademark Reference Specialist,
Paul Laurence Dunbar Library,
Wright State University,
Dayton, OH 45435 - 1-937-775-3521 -- "Guru's Lair: Patent Avoidance Library" -- -- -- "Beware of file-sharing programs --
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-- KNOWING THE TRICKS OF THE TRADE:
-- "Many hackers send out emails advertising a "grand prize." The email provides a website link for user registration. More often than not, users register with the same login and password they use for all of their computing - even work - giving hackers the access they covet. Hackers may also pretend to be associated a vendor or business associate. Typically, this creates a false sense of security, leading employees to be more willing to divulge the details that hackers are seeking.
-- PRACTICAL SOLUTIONS --
-- Building a defense against social engineering requires understanding vulnerabilities. Here are some action steps that can help you mitigate risks to your company:
- Develop a security policy.
- Make employees aware of common hacker tactics.
- Script employees.
- Establish a "please hold" policy to enable employees to collaborate with one another." --
-- Elizabeth Niedringhaus, SSE
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In fact,
IP-based businesses and entrepren-eurs drive more economic growth in the United States than any other single sector.
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-- Are you a small business? Welcome Success in a global economy depends more and more on intellectual property (IP) assets. In fact, IP-based businesses and entrepreneurs drive more economic growth in the United States than any other single sector. -- Unfortunately, intellectual property has captured the attention of pirates and organized crime. -- Today, piracy, counterfeiting and the theft of intellectual property pose a serious threat to all U.S. businesses. Industry estimates of the cost of such theft range from $250 billion to 750,000 jobs per year. These threats to ongoing invention and innovation make it important to consider securing IP protection, whether you're a major multinational firm or a 1-person home business. -- -- Small businesses. - Big questions. -- While every IP-based business is vulnerable to piracy and counterfeiting, small businesses can be at a particular disadvantage because they lack the resources and expertise available to larger corporations. Small businesses may also often lack the familiarity with the process of protecting intellectual property:
Research conducted in the spring of 2005 by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) indicates that only 15 percent of small businesses that do business overseas know that that a U.S. patent or trademark provides protection only in the United States.-- It has never been more essential for you to consider patenting your idea or registering your name as a trademark, especially if you are a small business owner or are starting a small business. |
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-- While every IP-based business is vulnerable to piracy and counterfeit-ing, small businesses can be at a particular disadvantage because they lack the resources and expertise available to larger corporations.
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-- In today's global marketplace, American products and branding can be stolen by an individual or a business halfway around the world without the rightful owner even being aware of it. Small businesses are particularly at risk because they may lack the knowledge and expertise to effectively combat such theft. In recognition of this need, USPTO hosted a series of seminars across the country to help educate American small businesses about the realities of piracy and counterfeiting and steps they can take to protect themselves. -- During the two-day seminars, patent, trademark and copyright experts and lawyers from the USPTO provided small and medium-sized businesses, entrepreneurs, and independent inventors interested in manufacturing or selling their products abroad with specific details and useful tips about protecting and enforcing their intellectual property rights in the United States and around the world. There was no charge for these conferences. For more information and when this will be reheld in 2008, keep reading the USPTO's website pages: www.uspto.gov
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-- What are the odds that you arrived at the right place, in the right time, to do the right thing, to have another chance--to do the right thing? -- Robert Scheinkman
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-- "To change and to change for the better are two different things." --
-- German proverb-- "Americans more wired, new-media survey finds: Scientific American" -- -- There are those who say they believe in reincarnation. That after we die we come back again to live another life. -- Some believe that they've been here before as another being and even in another gender.But -- "The living does not outnumber the dead. Since the creation, about 36 billion people have died. Over six and a half billion people are alive today." -- "There are two kinds of statistics: the kind you look up and the kind you make up." -- Rex Stout, Death of Doxy -- What are the odds that you arrived at the right place, in the right time, to do the right thing, to have another chance--to do the right thing? -- Robert Scheinkman
Household Hint
Reopening Envelope - If you seal an envelope and then realize you forgot to include something inside, just place your sealed envelope in the freezer for an hour or two. Viola! It unseals easily by running a knife blade under the seal. -- THAT is the reason the USPTO insists that YOU DO NOT place your written proof of FIRST TO INVENT in a sealed envelope and send it through the U.S. Mails to yourself. They will not honor this as your proof.-- You may have thought that a cancelled and kept-sealed-letter-envelope proves that the yet unopened contents hasn't been tampered with. The USPTO knows differently. That it can. That sustitution of material information can and has been made. -- Your choice is limited to filing a Provisional Patent Application; the Non-provisional Patent Application, or Non-Publishing. -- Robert Scheinkman
-- "There is a difference between genius and stupidity. There are no limitations to stupidity." -- Albert Einstein-- "Did you know that the Titanic hit the iceberg one day after the warranty ran out?" -- David Letterman -- -- The 3 P's Of Inventing -- -- by Matthew Yubas
-- "Many times inventors come to me and say, "I have an idea that I'm working on that I think is patentable." I say great, but what you want is an invention that is marketable. One that will serve the needs of people and generate a profit for yourself.-- There are many examples of inventions with patents, that never make it to the market or fail in the market. If you are following the old method of what I call the 3P's - Prototype, Patent, and Production - stop now! -- Keep in mind that there is more to a product than just its features or technology. Let's look at other P's from a marketing perspective. -- There are Product Benefits, Product Advantages, Pricing, Positioning, Profit Analysis, Product Requirements, Publicity, Promotion, Packaging, Product Name, Product Launch Plan, and Placement (distribution). -- These all need to be considered during invention creation, not after." --
"PRODUCT COACH:/ How To Get Your Invention Into The Market" --
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THE ONLINE INVENTOR – April 2, 2008 issue
(c) 2008 Market Launchers, Inc.
www.marketlaunchers.com
Editor: Paul Niemann
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-- -- ATTENTION HARDWARE -- LAWN & GARDEN INVENTORS:
-- Want to find a manufacturer and distribution for your Hardware or Lawn & Garden invention? Want to potentially collect royalties?-- Please contact Docie Marketing toll free at: 1-888-801-5200 now! Ask for Ron Docie, Sr. Email docie@docie.com
-- Paul Niemann
www.MarketLaunchers.com
-- 800-337-5758
-- 217-224-8194
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-- “There are really only 2 things that companies want to buy”
by Paul Niemann of MarketLaunchers.com
-- Regardless of what type of new product you’re selling, what it all comes down to for most companies is this: There are really only 2 things that they want:
1. To increase sales.
2. To decrease expenses.
-- Sure, that's making it a bit simplistic, but for that most part, it is accurate. How do you, as an inventor, use this to your knowledge?
-- When you contact a company, keep it simple and get right to the point of how your product can help him. Remember, he may have 15 other vendors calling on him that day.
-- If it can increase sales for his company, prove it to him.
-- If it can decrease expenses for his company, prove that to him.
-- If you can quantify it, that’s even better. For example, “Mr. Prospect, research has shown that the Gizmo 3000 has reduced fuel costs by 8% every time it is used. Best of all, it only costs 3 cents per gallon to treat your fuel, so it saves you 28 cents per gallon, for a net gain of 25 cents per gallon.
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-- Once upon a time a young lad was born without a belly button. In its place was a golden screw. All the doctors told his
mother that there was nothing that they could do. Like it or not he was stuck with it.
-- All the years of growing up was real tough on him, as all who saw the screw made fun of him. He avoided ever leaving his house and thus never made any friends.
-- One day a mysterious stranger saw his belly and told him of a swami in Tibet that could get rid of the screw for him. He was thrilled. The next day he took all of his life's savings and bought a ticket to Nepal.
-- After several days of climbing up steep cliffs, he came upon a giant monastery. The swami knew exactly why he had come. He was told to sleep in the highest tower of the monastery and the following day when he awoke, the screw would have been removed.
-- The man immediately went to the room and fell asleep. During the night while he slept, a purple fog floated in an open
window bearing in it's mist a golden screwdriver. In just moments, the screw-driver removed the screw and disappeared
out of the window.
-- The next morning when he woke, he saw the golden screw laying on the pillow next to him. Reaching down, he felt his navel, and there was no screw there!
-- Jubilant, he leaped out of bed and his butt fell off.
-- -- Thought of the day --
-- You are the conductor of your own train on the tracks of life and you are strong enough to go places you want to go. Don't let a little hill stop you - choose the reality you wish to create, not the one you're afraid might occur. Soon enough you'll be able to say just like the little engine, "I know I can!" --
Heather Walter
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